Are the rag picker performing a socially useful task?give reasons.
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Rag pickers play an important, but usually unrecognised role in the waste management system of Indian cities. They collect garbage in search of recyclable items that can be sold to scrap merchant like paper, plastic, tin...etc.Rag Pickers are the backbone of a neat and beautiful metropolis. The green workers manage entire trash of urban locates around the globe. However, their contribution to the city’s waste management remains unrecognized.
Millions of workers are informally involved in collecting, sorting, recycling and selling waste material that someone else has thrown away by declaring it as garbage. Vital actors in the economy, these workers work hard to reduce carbon emission and save energy spent in handling the waste. They also contribute towards saving public money and provide widespread discernible and indiscernible benefit to our society, municipalities and the environment
Rag pickers are very important people who collect and pick rags to maintain the cleanliness of the environment.
They prevents
Land pollution in a society.
When the rags are just left , they can pollute the land
They equally prevent air and water pollution.
The rag pickers provides a conducive environment hence development prowess